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This paper provides experimental evidence on how informational differences may translate into performance differences in competitive environments. In a laboratory tournament…
First comparative, multi-country study of the impact of gender quotas across descriptive, substantive and symbolic dimensions of representationBridges literatures of gender quotas…
Financial stress is widely believed to cause health problems. However, policies seeking to relieve financial stress by limiting debt levels of poor households may directly worsen…
Research suggests that women are more likely than men to pass over opportunities to negotiate for higher compensation. Studies from the laboratory, surveys, and field suggest that…
In the increasingly globalized context of the UAE, women’s leadershipdevelopment programs have become high on the agenda of government,academic and private sector…
The Cost of Workplace Flexibility for High-Powered Professionals. Lawrence Katz, Claudia Goldin, November 2011, Paper. "We study the pecuniary penalties for family-related…
A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties…
In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with…
“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America. Ricardo Hausmann, July 2010, Paper. "In this paper we establish six stylized…
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India, Rohini Pande, May 2010, Paper, "What constrains the…